SIDE NOTE: IT was announced at San Diego Comic Con the four of the actors from the original series will have cameo appearances in the movie. The four are Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins), David Selby (Quentin Collins), Lara Parker (Angelique) and Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans, Josette DuPres, and others).

I did know about the movie but this is the first real cast photo or photo I've seen from it: plus I went to the sort of dissapointing DS con in Brooklyn in August and saw nothing about it. The night before they showed the WB Unaired Pilot...which I missed. Thanks! This photo has me a bit worried as they all look a bit TOO ...uhm, camp. DS wasn't really so much camp...Depp looks sort of lost among the others really. Time will tell.

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This episode is much better, mostly due to Vicki being back. Sorry to say

that Maggie, although another much loved character and actress is not my

favorite. I think Kathryn is not very good throughout the series with some

Vicki. Roger and David are back. Liz comes back from Matthew’s cottage. Roger knows David tried to kill him. Roger drinks. The brake cylinder was found in David’s room. Liz, “I don’t know.” Sheriff Jonas Carter calls deputy Harry to get Bill Malloy but Bill is already here. Bill comes in and sits (mike shadow). Jonas says, “Flishing fleet” instead of fishing fleet and one of them says the name Bob –I think. There’s some mumbling going on between them. Bill thinks or tries to make Jonas think that Burke did the tampering with the car. Jonas asks about a nine year old…he thinks David may have done it. He later explains that David dropped the wrench and contaminated it with new prints. Burke also hired a detective who arrived in town two weeks before Burke.

Roger calls David a monster. Liz stares out the windows, which are open. He also mentions a “loving wife and adoring son” and how horrible it was for him. He mentions his wife name was Laura. He also wonders if and in the past, wondered if David were truly his son, thinking he was Burke’s. David was born 8 months after their wedding. Roger always hated David, thinking David was Burke’s son. Liz believes David is Roger’s. David (and Roger?) has been at Collinwood only for two months.

Bill seems to say the word George when talking to Jonas but it is Jonas that he says. They look at the prints taken from the wrench. Clearly, some of Burke’s large prints are over David’s, meaning David’s prints were on the wrench before Burke touched it. Jonas is ready to turn in his badge. He says, “I don’t know what to do about it.”

David would not talk to Liz (he’s unseen). Liz says, “I don’t know what to do about it.” Roger calls David not a normal child and wants to send David away. He believes there will be a juvenile hearing if it comes out that David had something to do with this. Liz asks Roger to forgive David. He cannot seem to. He’s had nine years of torment from the boy. Liz asks him to think of what David has gone through: surrounded by hatred from the moment he was born.

Liz says, “Our family stands together, we always have and we always will.” I can’t help but think of how Carl was killed by Quentin and Barnabas; of how Barnabas killed Jeremiah, etc. They don’t always stand together. In fact, the show is so different from the show it will become three years later. Liz shows him the paintings of the other Collinses: Jeremiah, Issac, Benjamin. Liz flubs over Roger’s name.

Jonas arrives to talk to them both. Roger still has his bandage on his fore head. Jonas tells them he has been mistaken before. Liz lies about Matthew: that Matthew admitted the valve had already been loose and he never changed it. Jonas will close the case and take his wife to a movie (a normal thing in DS!). After Liz lets Jonas out of the house via the double doors, we see him walk past the set on the far right side as it apparently is wide open! Roger, “You protected a monster, Liz.” He believes she will regret it.

Credits: Are over the sheriff office. Sheriff Carter. The announcer mentions that in September a new show called RAT PATROL will start. The announcer also says, “Dark Shadows is a Dan Curtis Production.”

My original notes say something about giving David the happiness and tension he deserves!?

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Vicki. 8-10-66. Steps and scaffolding and odd reflections against Collinwood. Tension halts the flow of time. Vicki feels as if she’s been here for years but hasn’t. Liz sits in the dark in the drawing room. She was afraid Carolyn would get caught in the storm but it has passed. Liz, “Please be happy.” Carolyn Teleprompter. Liz and Carolyn talk about a nine year old boy who tampered with brakes. Liz, “I’m not interested in Burke.” Thank goodness for that. Carolyn, “I’d rather have one friend like Burke than ten cousins like David.” Liz feels Carolyn is the only one in this house that can have a sane, happy life. Carolyn jokes about Burke proposing to her. She’s not ready to marry Joe. She doesn’t know about herself.

Joe gets drunk the Blue Whale. The dancing couple there is awful. Joe calls Andy or Pandy the bartender, calling for a waiter, too. Burke comes in for a beer and offers to buy Joe a drink, too. But Burke warns him not to get drunk some more, Joe tells him he doesn’t like him. Joe tells him that a friend of his at work and he were going to buy a boat together and then Joe could marry Carolyn. The friend’s wife , the fella’s wife, is going to have a baby and he cannot buy the boat with Joe. So Joe cannot marry Carolyn. Burke suggests he buy the boat himself but Joe cannot afford it. Burke mentions his “help” and proposal. Burke says, “Marriage isn’t always the answer. Sometimes, it gets in the way.”

Liz to Carolyn, “The sooner you get out of this house, the better.” David is staying. Carolyn says, “No wonder this place is a madhouse.” And, “David’s no ordinary little boy…from the very first day that he came here…” Liz mentions that she is his aunt and Carolyn his cousin. Carolyn says that even Jack the Ripper had an aunt and mother.

Carolyn goes to Vicki who is looking at what she calls her “birth certificate”, the note left with her on the door step of the orphanage. Dinner is in half an hour. Dinner!!! On DS! Carolyn asks Vicki, “Are we all crazy?” Vicki says, “I know.”

Burke is being nice to Joe and when Joe says he’s nothing, Burke says, “Don’t sell yourself short, kid.” Is he deliberately trying to build Joe’s confidence, knowing he is drunk, and that he might go to Collinwood to start something? I’m not sure but it sure does not look like that. But then again back then, DS wasn’t as deliberate as it would be in 1969. A new dancing couple is just as bad as the other one and their movements are not in sync with the music.

Vicki will not be at dinner. She has to go into town and Carolyn has leant her her car. Joe comes to Collinwood, insults and blames Liz for it all and confronts a Carolyn who just came down the steps. He’s drunk. Before he knew Carolyn was coming down, he was going up to her, “If Mohammed won’t come to the mountain…” Carolyn says, “You’re potted!” Mike Shadowed too.

Joe is brought to the drawing room where he almost falls and has to be helped by Vicki and Carolyn. He tells Carolyn she will never marry, insults and blames Liz again and before falling onto the couch says to Vicki, “You stay here, you’ll be as nuts as the rest of em.”

I notice for the first time that they are making Vicki and Liz’s hair up the same. It doesn’t do either woman any favors.

Vicki goes to the Blue Whale, her first time she says to Burke. She has met Burke there.

Credits: fireplace. “DS is a Dan Curtis Production.”

NOTE: as par for the course, the last four episodes all seem to be the same night.

Review: Phew ! A very different show. In a way I’m glad I had this chance to go back and redo two eps that either I forgot to do before—they are in my notes but I can’t find my write ups---or just skipped. What a very different show. In some ways it was more subtle and more …well, human. Joan and Louis could make something from nothing. Their talk in ep 32 is just…interesting, tense, and entertaining when the dialog is just routine. The two of them make it so much better than it is and these two eps, far from being boring just move along nicely. David is a strong character –in fact, so strong that he’s not even in these two eps but is a presence in them just the same. It’s also sad that Joe is mostly correct in his diatribe against Liz and Carolyn and that Carolyn will have a poor, supernatural beset life. She really isn’t any more happy when we last see her as when we first saw her. Vicki’s eventual fate also makes this ep seem. almost psychic. I can’t help but think Vicki’s fate on the show is not the actual end all be all , that somehow she returns, possibly under control of the Leviathans and as an evil entity only to break free somehow later and become her old self and to find that Liz is her mother.